I named it my FRANKEN-HEART This was my first soldering attempt on a printed circuit board (I just have experience with car audio cables). The image speaks for itself when I say I need more practice to make it as clean as AJ did in this post. It intermittently lights up as I did not know how to effectively get the battery power through the holes in the board. i eventually had to use hot glue to hold it together.... :( I followed the instructions on dying the PCB board with black fabric dye, but after 30 mins, it only got to this brown, aged color that I didn't mind. I added a magnetic clasp and a small 3v CR1225 batteryThank you for the idea and the motivation to finally start programming Integrated Circuit chips and to start soldering circuit boards! Next will be a Raspberry Pi 3 or an...

I named it my FRANKEN-HEART This was my first soldering attempt on a printed circuit board (I just have experience with car audio cables). The image speaks for itself when I say I need more practice to make it as clean as AJ did in this post. It intermittently lights up as I did not know how to effectively get the battery power through the holes in the board. i eventually had to use hot glue to hold it together.... :( I followed the instructions on dying the PCB board with black fabric dye, but after 30 mins, it only got to this brown, aged color that I didn't mind. I added a magnetic clasp and a small 3v CR1225 batteryThank you for the idea and the motivation to finally start programming Integrated Circuit chips and to start soldering circuit boards! Next will be a Raspberry Pi 3 or an Arduino Uno :)

I used this Tiny AVR Programmer: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11801